March 2022 Letter LIVING WELL

Wow! The last 10 years have been astounding! 

When we formed LIVING WELL ministry in 2003, our focus was on strengthening families here and in Africa. We have done that through personal guidance, classes, training church teams, and training pastors in Africa. We have tried to be faithful to take the next step wherever the Lord led.

In January of 2012, He presented a new mission endeavor. While we were in Ndola, Zambia, working with pastors on marriage ministry, our colleague there introduced us to a school in a slum of a slum. Another ministry had started WISDOM Christian School (originally named Wisdom Community School), but was leaving Zambia that month. The school was going to close without support – at that time, the need was $400/month. The school had one building made of mud blocks with two classrooms. It served 140 children in grades 1-4, who would not be able to attend school elsewhere. They had three teachers and a caretaker.

The Lord spoke to us about keeping the school open by raising support. We did that for the first year through the Bible study class that we taught at our church. Then God gave us a plan to continue to develop the school with more buildings, school supplies, and taking teams to give the kids a VBS type experience each summer.

As they say, the rest is history! 

We think it’s time to celebrate all the God has done.

He has moved at an amazing speed to grow this school and its development. We are so thankful for the people that He has involved, both in person and as donors.

We have lots of info on the WCS website about the growth and developments at WISDOM in the last 10 years. Please look at the 10 year celebration on the WCS website, you can see year-by-year summaries - lots of photos and info.

CAMP WISDOM Year-by-Year

We continue to pray that we will be able to return soon and start taking teams again. The needs have grown greatly since the secondary school was added. Please pray for the students, teachers, and their support.

Please let us know how you are doing. Our office is only open by appointment but you can email us at info@livingwellokc.org. We are no longer taking new appointments, but will see people that we have seen in the past. 

THANK YOU again for your continued prayers, support, and encouragement. We could not do what we do without YOU!

Our love in Christ,

Donna and Ed Edwards

P.S. Please pray for us to be able to return to Zambia, for protection and support of WISDOM Christian School.

The water that I will give him will

become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. 

John 4:14b 

LIVING WELL is a life source, not a life style.